Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez stressed this Sunday, November 24, on the sidelines of the club's general assembly that “the Ballon d'Or should have gone to a Real Madrid player” and accused UEFA of being intervened in the allocation process.
“Rodri (the Ballon d'Or winner) is a great player, and from Madrid at that. It has nothing to do with him. He deserved a Ballon d'Or, but not this one, the one from last year where he made the hat-trick (with Manchester City) and scored in the Champions League final. This should have gone to a Real Madrid player. declared the Madrid president, assuming the decision to boycott the ceremony.
“Vinicius seemed to be unanimous, but it could very well have been our captain, Dani Carvajal. Or even Jude Bellingham, Euro finalist and author of an exceptional season. It's very difficult to explain”, he assured in front of more than a thousand “partners”.
The Spanish businessman, in open war with world Football authorities and support of the controversial European Super League project, accused UEFA, partner of France Football in organizing the ceremony for the first time this year, to have intervened in the award process:
“They changed the voting system (from 5 players to 10), as well as the number of points (from 6 to 15) that each journalist can give to each player. (…) Without the votes of four countries, the Namibia, Uganda, Albania and Finland, Vinicius would have won the Ballon d'Or They didn't even give him a point! he regretted.
The influential president also asked the newspaper L'Equipe and France Football if this had “a sense” of “to join forces today with UEFA while European clubs are in the middle of the fight to obtain their freedom and free themselves from the monopoly (of UEFA)”and demanded that the Ballon d'Or be a trophy “independent” and more transparent criteria.
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